For Martin Amis, celebrity, narcissism and tabloid superficiality are the villains of modern British lifeAn old story: bad news arrives from France. A celebrated English writer, to whom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01AMWe think of stoicism as a very British virtue – all Blitz spirit and 'women and children first' – but would we react to a disaster with the kind of resilience the Japanese have?In the ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMThe conflict in Libya is dominating the news. And yet most of us know so little about the countryBrega has fallen to Gaddafi. No, Brega has stood firm and Gaddafi has been driven back. The r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMWe have been luckier than generations on either side, but whether that makes us morally inferior is another matterEarly in the Arnold Bennett novel that's titled after his surname, the young…
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